Uruguay Launches Deposit Return System

In a step towards a more sustainable Latin America, Uruguay’s national packaging recovery initiative, Plan Vale, agreed to the terms with the consortium of CIEMSA, CSI, and Reverse Logistics Group (RLG) to implement the country’s first Deposit Return and …

Crew Member Missing from MSC Cruise Ship off Uruguay’s Coast

MSC Cruises’ MSC Poesia’s current voyage has, unfortunately, been hindered by the loss of one of its crew members.  While sailing an 8-day roundtrip journey that departed from Buenos Aires, Argentina, on February 20, 2025, a 32-year-old crew member, …

World News | MoS External Affairs, Pabitra Margherita to Visit Uruguay, Bahamas, Barbados and Nicaragua

New Delhi [India], February 26 (ANI): Minister of State for External Affairs and Textiles, Pabitra Margherita will pay an official visit to Uruguay from February 28 to March 2 , Bahamas from March 2 to March 4, Barbados from March 4 to March 6 and …

Xi's special envoy to attend inauguration of Uruguay's new president

BEIJING, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- At the invitation of President Luis Lacalle Pou of Oriental Republic of Uruguay, President Xi Jinping's special envoy and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Han Jun will visit Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, and …

Uruguay's INE reports unemployment on the rise

    Tuesday, February 25th 2025 - 19:03 UTC Unemployment grew year-on-year despite the creation of 27,000 new jobs, the INE report found Uruguay's National Institute of Statistics (INE) released a report Tuesday showing that last month's …

Rail consortium brings claim against Uruguay

Train station in Montevido, Uruguay (Credit: Shutterstock/DFLC Prints) An engineering consortium led by Spain’s Sacyr says it has brought an arbitration against Uruguay over outstanding payments relating to a US$1.5 billion rail project. Register for …

Justice on trial in cattle finance fraud in Uruguay

The director of this digital media, Juan Carlos Blanco, signs an article in which he states that the case exposed “an open secret of a business that bordered more on the criminal and fraudulent” among the cattle, political and social world. Many of the …

Migrants apply for residency by roots in Uruguay

The residency by roots was enabled by the Ministries of the Interior and Foreign Affairs in 2024. According to data from the Refugee Commission (CORE), in the last few months more than 2,000 residency procedures were initiated, Ámbito reported. The Foreign …

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Unemployment in Uruguay rises in January

The report remained below the 8.6 percent recorded in the same month of 2024. According to INE, the total number of workers in January was determined to stand at around 1,750,000, while those seeking employment amounted to some 154,000, a lower figure than …